The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980"As the twenty-first century approaches, a new generation of scholars is providing fresh historical perspectives on the twentieth. The contributors to The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order move beyond both the self-congratulation of traditional liberals and the hostility of New Left radicals. This collection of ten essays, written mainly by scholars who came of age after the New Deal legacy had been tarnished, represents the cutting edge of historical scholarship on twentieth-century American political life." --Susan Ware, The Nation "Empirically rich and intellectually provocative essays."--Theda Skocpol, Tikkun "The New Deal Order is dead, ' the editors of this book write, offering their collection of provocative essays as a historical autopsy.' Calling on some of the leading writers in political economy--including Thomas Ferguson, Alan Brinkley, Ira Katznelson, and Thomas Byrne Edsall--the editors present a detailed look at how the New Deal was formed and where it lost its social-democratic potential. . . . This book contains many wide-ranging and stimulating pieces of revisionist history at its best."-- The Progressive |
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Avis d'utilisateur - ccjolliffe - LibraryThingWhen you've acquainted yourself with the story of the progressive ascendancy in mid-20th century America, turn to this collection of essays to fathom its meaning. Consulter l'avis complet
Table des matières
| 3 | |
| 32 | |
| 55 | |
The New Deal and the Idea of the State | 85 |
Politics and | 153 |
THE NEW DEAL POLITICAL ORDER | 183 |
The Failure and Success of the New Radicalism | 212 |
The Rise of the Silent Majority | 243 |
A Realignment | 269 |
Epilogue | 294 |
Index | 301 |
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Page 32 - The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process. It may seem strange that anyone can fail to see so obvious a fact which moreover was long ago emphasized by Karl Marx.
Page 90 - the answer of a society which unconsciously felt the need of great organizations, and at the same time had to deny them a place in the moral and logical ideology of the social structure.
Page 31 - Thomas Byrne Edsall, The New Politics of Inequality (New York: WW Norton, 1984), 116. 45. Wills, Reagan's America, 365. 46. Edsall, The New Politics, 116. 47. Garry Wills, "It's His Party," The New York Times Magazine, 11 August 1996, 52.
Page 239 - Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (New York: Viking Press, 1963), p.
Page 128 - Labor-Management Charter" with William Green of the AFL and Eric Johnston, the corporate liberal president of the US Chamber of Commerce. Consisting of a list of often irreconcilable platitudes hailing the virtues of unfettered free enterprise and the rights of labor, the charter nevertheless symbolized the CIO's hope for cooperation with the liberal wing of American capitalism in stabilizing postwar industrial relations along roughly the lines established during the war. "It's Industrial Peace for...
Page 262 - presented with a choice between the high hat and the hard hat" would "come down on the side of the hard hat every time." He denounced "elitism" as "one of the radical liberals' chief afflictions." "The elite," Agnew said, "consist of the raised-eyebrow cynics" and "the pampered egotists who sneer at honesty, thrift, hard work, prudence, common decency and self-denial.
Page 97 - ... to conserve our land from further erosion and our forests from further depletion. The situation is also very different from the old days, because now we have plenty of capital, banks and insurance companies loaded with idle money; plenty of industrial productive capacity and several millions of workers looking for jobs. It is following tradition as well as necessity, if Government strives to put idle money and idle men to work, to increase our public wealth and to build up the health and strength...
Page 189 - ... as vital a part of the economy of the next several years as they proved in fact to be. Nor did anyone foresee how great and powerful a labor movement would be called into being by the spirit and the promise of the New Deal and by the partial recovery of its first few years. But by the end of 1937 it was clear that something had been added to the social base of reformism. The demands of a large and powerful labor movement, coupled with the interests of the unemployed, gave the later New Deal a...
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Informations bibliographiques
| Titre | The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980 American History: Political science Princeton paperbacks |
| Rédacteurs | Steve Fraser, Gary Gerstle |
| Éditeur | Princeton University Press, 1989 |
| ISBN | 0691006075, 9780691006079 |
| Longueur | 311 pages |
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